From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 15 17:24:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03451 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:24:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03446 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02305; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:28:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810160028.RAA02305@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Christopher Masto cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup and file permissions In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Oct 1998 19:48:40 EDT." <19981015194840.A16439@netmonger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 17:28:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is something I've kind of been ignoring for a while, but now that > I'm tracking current/BETA on a couple more machines, I'd like to solve > it. I don't see anything obvious in the manpage. > > Basically, I maintain one copy of the CVS tree on our big server with > cvsup, and use remote CVS+ssh to check stuff out onto other machines. > Because CVS needs write access, I have set up a group for the users > that have permission to do this sort of thing. The problem is that cvsup > keeps taking the group permissions away when it updates the repository. Use the -R option to cvs when checking out. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message